[PDF] Humanists And Reformers eBook

Author : Bard Thompson
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 801 pages
File Size : 17,16 MB
Release : 2007-12-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0802863485

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Humanists and Reformers portrays in a single, expansive volume two great traditions in human history: the Italian Renaissance and the age of the Reformation. / Bard Thompson provides a fascinating survey of these important historical periods under pressure of their own cultural, social, and spiritual experiences, exploring the bonds that held Humanists and Reformers together and the estrangements that drove them apart. / Writing for students and general readers, Thompson offers a comprehensive account of all the major figures of the Renaissance and the Reformation, probing their thoughts, aspirations, and differences. / Accentuating the text are illustrations that provide a stunning panorama of the personalities, art, and architecture of these key historical periods.

Author : Erika Rummel
Publisher : Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,88 MB
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN :

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Erika Rummel delves into the extensive primary sources of the times, bringing the issues and their continuing legacy to light and making a valuable contribution to our understanding of the intellectual climate of early modern Europe.

Author : Erika Rummel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 37,6 MB
Release : 2000-08-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0195350332

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This book deals with the impact of the Reformation debate in Germany on the most prominent intellectual movement of the time: humanism. Although it is true that humanism influenced the course of the Reformation, says Erika Rummel, the dynamics of the relationship are better described by saying that humanism was co-opted, perhaps even exploited, in the religious debate.

Author : N. Scott Amos
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 10,66 MB
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1351890905

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Throughout the sixteenth century, political and intellectual developments in Britain and The Netherlands were closely intertwined. At different times religious refugees from one or other country found a secure haven across the Channel, and a constant interchange of books, ideas and personnel underscored the affinity of lands which both made a painful progress towards Protestantism during the course of the century. This collection of ten new studies, all by specialists active in the field, explores the full ramifications of these links, from the first intellectual contacts inspired by the growth of Humanism to the planting of established Protestant churches. With contributions from specialists in art history, literary studies and history, the volume also underscores the vitality of new research in this field and points the way to several new departures in the field of Reformation and Renaissance studies.

Author : Timothy P. Dost
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 35,12 MB
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1351904426

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Drawing on the early correspondence of Martin Luther, Timothy Dost presents a reassessment of the degree to which humanism influenced the thinking of this key reformation figure. Studying letters written by Luther between 1507 and 1522, he explores the various ways Luther used humanism and humanist techniques in his writings and the effect of these influences on his developing religious beliefs. The letters used in this study, many of which have never before been translated into English, focus on Luther's thoughts, attitudes and application of humanism, uncovering the extent to which he used humanist devices to develop his understanding of the gospel. Although there have been other studies of Luther and humanism, few have been grounded in such a close philological examination of Luther's writings. Combining a sound knowledge of recent historiography with a detailed familiarity with Luther's correspondence, Dost provides a sophisticated contribution to the field of reformation studies.

Author : Jonathan Arnold
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 22,70 MB
Release : 2011-10-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0857720805

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Born out of a love of language, text, classical learning, art, philosophy and philology, the Christian Humanist project lasted beyond the turmoil of sixteenth-century Europe to survive in a new form in post-Reformation thought. Jonathan Arnold here explores the finest intellects of late-Renaissance Europe, providing an essential guide to the most important scholars, priests, theologians and philosophers of the period, now collectively known as the Christian Humanists. "The Great Humanists" provides an invaluable context to the philosophical, political and spiritual state of Europe on the eve of the Reformation through inter-related biographical sketches of Erasmus, Thomas More, Marsilio Ficino, Petrarch, Johann Reuchlin, Jacques Lefevre d'Etaples and many others. The legacy of these thinkers is still relevant and widely-studied today, and this book will make invaluable reading for scholars and students of philosophy and early-modern European history.

Author : Mads L. Jensen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 17,29 MB
Release : 2019-11-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9004414134

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In A Humanist in Reformation Politics Mads Langballe Jensen offers the first contextual account of the political philosophy and natural law theory of the German reformer Philipp Melanchthon (1497-1560).

Author : James Michael Weiss
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,48 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Biography as a literary form
ISBN : 9781409400219

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After an important new introduction, surveying the practice of biographical writing in Renaissance Italy and Reformation Germany, and an analysis of Italian biographies, 1450 to 1550, James Weiss focuses on one group in one nation: the German humanists' biographical collections and individual biographies of their humanist colleagues: pedagogues, scholars, poets and reformers from 1480 to 1620. Two essays also explore varied directions taken by pre-Reformation humanists as they re-fashioned the lives of saints, and by the earliest Lutheran reformers' new strategies along similar lines. The volume closes with a study of Erasmus's Ecclesiastes, a treatise on rhetoric, in a sense an 'ideal biography', along with a hand list of biographies discussed.

Author : Ernest Gordon Rupp
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 45,98 MB
Release : 1969-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780664241582

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This volume includes the texts of Erasmus's 1524 diatribe against Luther, De Libero Arbitrio, and Luther's violent counterattack, De Servo Arbitrio. E. Gordon Rupp and Philip Watson offer commentary on these texts as well. Long recognized for the quality of its translations, introductions, explanatory notes, and indexes, the Library of Christian Classics provides scholars and students with modern English translations of some of the most significant Christian theological texts in history. Through these works--each written prior to the end of the sixteenth century--contemporary readers are able to engage the ideas that have shaped Christian theology and the church through the centuries.